Here’s What You Need to Know: This is great news! We need all the tools available to us to fight the battle against diabetes. Tirzepatide belongs to a class of medicines that’s been proven to reduce both your weight and A1c. That’s great!
The Big Picture: But, there’s something that we don’t know, yet. We don’t know if this medicine (Tirzepatide) is also going to be effective in providing heart health protection.
Take Home Message: Diabetic people have a very high risk of heart disease.
When it comes to diabetes medications, heart health protection is a very important thing.
Next Steps: Please keep in mind the most common side effects are nausea, diarrhea and vomiting.
The medicine, unfortunately, may not be available from all insurance carriers.
Talk to your doctors about it.
The background: So, the evidence continues to mount that cutting calories and eating at the right time of the day leads to longer life,...